Post Holiday Funk

This is the sad time of year for those of us Christmas junkies. The family has all gone home, (which isn’t really ALL bad depending on how much time they were there I suppose) the gifts have all been unwrapped, (side note: I hate when people ask what I got for Christmas. It makes me really uncomfortable. Am I alone? Here I am, coming off a food and family high and someone wants to know what I got? I love Christmas, I love everything about Christas, but please don’t ask me to list off what I got. It makes me feel dirty) and lastly, the decorations come down. This may be the worst part. This is the signal that the holidays are over, the house looks bare, and we have to return to normal. We have an entire year to wait until next Christmas. UGH!

To make me feel better, we went to the mall today to check out the after Christmas sales. You may or may not know, but I have very recently lost nearly 50lbs and am now a respectable size found in most stores. This occurred to me today as I tried on a coat that looked really cute and was 70% off. So I bought it. That still didn’t replace the hole in my heart left by garland and twinkly lights, so I made something for dinner I’ve missed very much:

Chicken. Fried. Steak.
It’s been a long time. Way to long and I’ve missed it so. See its not easy to get comfort food when you can’t have gluten. I had to chop up the gluten free bread crumbs from parts of gluten free breads I’ve attempted and frozen over the last year. In fact, any bread heal, leftover biscuit, or just plain failure, I stick in the freezer to wait for a day like tonight.

I set out my three trays. One with gf flour, one with eggs, and one with bread crumbs, then I dipped and pan fried. I don’t deep fry, but I fried these in a pan in some olive oil and they turned out PERFECT. Then I made cream gravy. I’m still working on getting the gravy thing down, but not because I have to use gf flour, mostly because, I’ve always struggled with gravy. Still, it was good. Delicious. I would show you the finished product, but I ate it before I could take a pic. Here is the gravy

If anyone out there can do a gluten free gravy well, let me know. I’m all ears.

Heck, even a regular gravy. I can adapt it.